_Say unto my soul, I am thy salvation._ SAVED OR UNSAVED I. the earnest entreaty of a troubled soul. It was said of the great Sir Isaac Newton that he had a white soul, so pure was it. But this can be said of very few. They do not feel their need of salvation. When you become awakened it is a cris... [ Continue Reading ]
_My soul shall he joyful in the Lord._ LIFE’S JOY It is not often that we meet with a truly joyous face. We see many a brow curved with humour, and lips with their wreath of mirth, but the eyes seldom beam the glory of that quiet delight which is named in our text. Everybody has some joy; but in ma... [ Continue Reading ]
_I humbled my soul with fasting._ THE DUTY OF FASTING So said David. All God’s faithful children, under every dispensation, have observed the same rule. So must each one now say, who hopes for the highest degree of blessedness hereafter. “Can none, then, be saved without fasting?” I have heard peop... [ Continue Reading ]
_I bowed down heavily as one that mourneth for his mother._ THE DUTY OF SURVIVING CHILDREN TO THE MEMORY OF PIOUS AND DEPARTED MOTHERS I. some general observations on the text. 1. It displays a beautiful combination of apparently opposite virtues in the same character. Undaunted courage and yet l... [ Continue Reading ]
_Lord, how long wilt Thou look on?_ HOW LONG This was David’s cry in his distress. I. A trying experience. David did not doubt that the Lord saw his trouble. He did not say, “My way is hid from the Lord;” but he felt as if the Lord was only looking on and not delivering him. As a soldier hard pre... [ Continue Reading ]
_They devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land._ SIN APPROACHING THE UNSUSPECTING “There is no temptation,” said John of Wesel, one of the greatest of the pre-Lutheran reformers, “so great as not to be tempted at all.” We have a vivid illustration of this in a picture given... [ Continue Reading ]
_Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause._ SYMPATHY WITH THE GODLY 1. It is one mark of godliness amongst many others, to befriend the cause of Christ, and to further it in the person of His saints suffering for righteousness, with their best affection, for here they ar... [ Continue Reading ]